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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (June 1, 1922)
TtttJRSDAY M6RNING, 'JUNE ri; 1922 litre Bargains Erery " Day The New Store - CaUOa Vick Brothers-; -' : for , " Orerland Oakland Paije V Waiyi-Knit Mason Tires YeedolOn " Vick Brothers " ; Quality ,Cars 7 Worth & Gray Dedicated to Stimulating Our Present Industries And to the Establishment of New Ones . DEPARTMENT STORE , Successors to W. W. lloore The Way to Build Up Your Home Town Is to Patronize . Your Home People The Surest Way to Get More and Larger Indus tries Istb Support TJiose You Have 111. JLUberty St, Salem, Or. THE OREGON RTAlTSSIAN, 'SALfal, OREGON -'- t v - J 4,-..v ,.. -4 vm , a YEATHERLY , Sold ererywhere BUTTERCUP. ICE CREAM CO. V . P. l&I. Gregory, Mgr. 240 South Commercial Street r : DRY GOODS NOTIONS WOMEN'S! READY-TO-WEAR FURS CORSETS. yr . i- .466 BUe St. . ?hoa 877 Eyes Tested Glasses Fitted tttMt aeeanUly " aapiieaUA. Om- Hartmah Bros. Jewelers and Opticians SalenC Oregon Save , .v -Your; Clothes " ' ,.. . '; L:-. :'V,Cv. . Im Werk aa .Worry - x. . ' ' dry work m y ". i f ...... : -" .', Salem Laundry ; ; Company;: " 1SG littrty St - Phone 25 QWPCO, . Broom Handles, Mop Han dles, aper Plugs, Tent Tozeles. all kinds of Hard wood Handles Manufac tured by the, ; Oregon Wood Products Co ,, West Salem;: Capital City ILaundry Quality and Service Phone ICS Monuments and Tombstones ' V flade Irf Salem' j JhU la U 'n!r MBiaat wrks r . . to , . Bi Stoqk 6n Display Capital filonaaental 21 8. Coai't Oppoilt OwaUrr . . fkOM S8S Made In Salem by experienced Swiss Cheese .;. I ' maker. : r-r V - Swiss Cheese Cream Brick Cheese ' 2 ; Limberger Cheese - Order from the factory or from : your crocer Salern Cheese Factory Phone 81P11 ) On pared reform swi ro. -4f . . ' m piaie a oaj ICE CREAM Salem' MiflTTra RS TO RUN The Oregon Growers Packing Corporation, . Which Is Allied With the Oregon Growers. Cooperative Associ ation, Has the Machinery Salem Fruit Union Plant, Going Up to Give Additional Room. A State8maa reporter yesterday asfted a prominent cannery man ot this' city II be had beard of any new canneries for Salem." "Not tlnce yesterday," was the reply. : ; lhe reader no couht has heard ot the two new ones that have been under construction and are nowv nearlng1 completion, ihe one KING'S FOOD PRODUCTS COMPANY ; Dehydratorf and Canneri Oregon Fruits and Vegetables - Salem ' . Portland . , The Dalles ''Oregon . . '.-.1 Wiring Fixtures Mazdas ; Electrical Appliances Salem Electric Company ' MIf it electric, come to u. Uasonie Templet Phone 1200 Our efforts will be to assist in every possible way the development of the fruit and berry industries of this , ; Y ; s valley ? A1 OREGON PACKING COMPANY A Licensed Lady Embalmer -to -care for - women and children - Is a necessity In all funeral homes. We are the .only ones furnishing such serTlce. . Terwilliger -Funeral Homer , 770 Chemeketa St. Phone 724 SALEM. OREGON . We carry (he following lines of PAINTS, Sherwln Williams , Co. and Bass Hueter Co.-" j . ' 4 Also . " 0 Everything In Bonding ' Material' - " : Falls City-SalemLumber . Company ' .. . A. B. Kelsiy, llrr. 5 S49 S. 12th SL , ; Phone 813 W An Out .After few XOUona wartara f a aaUliaB doUara a yaar tba 4airyai f taU aaetios ir Milk"".. . ; "Marion Botter" la the Bast Xsttn - Ure tm sad eattar am m Ua erjOf- aaad MARION CREAMERY a&9ro&.' This campaign of publicity for community upbuilding has been made possible by the advertisements placed on these pages by our public spirited business men men whose untiring efforts have builded our present recognized prosperity and who are ever striving for greater &nd yet greater progress as the years go by. Blf JUNE 12 Already Assembled, in the and a New Building Is Now at the big dehydration plant and the other"on ChurtUx and Mill streets the latter by the Star fruit Products Co. There is another new one E1' line under way, and which will be ready to begin operations on Mon day, June 12; a week from next Monday. V This third new cannery for Sa- MONEY TO LOAN On Farm Land' FIRE INSURANCE ' on Your Buildings REAL ESTATE -LA. HAYFORD 305 SUte SL SEM, OREGON Dixie Health Bread Ask Your Grocer a SATTERLri- AUCTIONEER i Phones: Residence, 1211 Office. 1177 SALEM :: OREGON YET . BREAD It SatisBei X . Made By MISTLAND BAKERY 12th and Chemeketa J Order from your grocer lem wilt occupy a part of the' Sa km Fru t Union DUi.diiiga at Trade and High street!!, and an ad ditional building is being erected, to supply 2,000 additional aqriare feet for cannery storage. This new cannery will be owned ana operated by the Oregon Growers racking corporation, which is ai led with the Oregon Growers Co operative association. The ma chinery is already assembled ana is being set 1n position. The cans and the sugar and other supplies have been purchased. C. J. Pugh. an experienced cannery man, is in charge as general superintendent. This new cannery will run two thifts a day with women and three shifts with men. This will give employment to 200 women ! and about 25 men, and the capacity will be 50 to 60 tons of trait a day. Many labor saving devices will be used, tending to give a large output with the smallest possible force of employes. The picking of gooseberries by some of the growers is expected to begin tomorrow, and picking is expected to be general by Monday. The Oregon Packing company, at It big Twelfth street cannery, ex pects to-egin, canning gooseber ries on Tuesday, June 6th. f W. G. Allen, manager of the big cannery of the Hunt Bros. Co., said yesterday that he did not ex pect to have enough berries to be gin operations quite so soon; but' they are all ready now, and they will open the season jast as soon as they can get enough fruit. Strawberries will follow goose berries , closely, and cherries - will not be far behind, and all the can neries, did and new will be busy within a very short time, and the 'outlook is that there will be a long and great run. The Oregon Packing ; company recently , leased the big Jam and Jelly plant. Just east of the South, era Pacific passenger depot; but no movehas as yet been made as to its use. It Is expected that the West Salem cannery of Bruce Cunning ham will be run the coming sea son as an evaporator. It is evident that no fruit is going to be allowed to go to waste, for want of canning or evaporating and dehydration and barreling and juice pressing--ed maraschino making and chipping and other facilities in Salem. ! The' Hen Against the Cow The hen is indeed a delicate bit of machinery that, when in work ing order, turns out a larger vol ume of product than any other animal or inanimate working unit I on the farm and yet, th way this nit 01 nesh and blood Is often treated, one would suppose it was a rudely constructed article, in a recent bulletin the New York Experiment Station made a com parative analysis between the vol ume of product and the physical avoirdupois between fowls and cattle, the selection being a White Leghorn hen of three and one half pounds weight producing Suo eggs per annum, weighing twen ty-five pounds, and a 1000-pound Jersey cow producing T,0tH pounds of milk containing 14 per cent of solids. If the dry matter of.the hen is compared with the dry matter of the eggs she lays m a year, there will be five and one- half times as much in the eggs as in the whole body. The weight of the dry matter in the cow's body o the weight of the dry. mat ter In the milk will be as 1 to 2.9 As a productive piece of machin ery the modern hen is indeed one of the most profitable articles on the farm provided, always, that you run her right and Jteep all parts of her In working order. Seamless Hot Water . Bottles and v Combination Syringes -Guaranteed Not To Leak' Prices from $1 up Brewer Drug Co. 405 Court SL Phone IS 4 DUTIES PROPOSED ON AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS OE THE SALEM DISTRICT They Are Ample in Some Salem Cases, and in Others' They Are Far Too Low for Adequate Protection Against the Same Articles in Foreign Countries Un der Conditions of Low Labor Costs 4- Notable Ex ample in Cherries, and a Joker in Hides and Skins. The protective tarriff bill now being considered in the United States senate provides amply for the protection of some of the ag ricultural, horticultural and live Ia.If nn1n4l4 J - CmIaim '1 In trict- hops, for instance, and horses and mules for another ex ample; but in other cases the rates are too low. The following are the rates pro posed under the schedules re ferred to or the rates that were proposed up to a few days ago: r Cattle. 1 to 2 cents a pound; fresh beef and veal 3Vi cents a pound; cattle hides, 2 to 4 cents a pound. Sheep and goats, $2 per head; muttou and goat meat, 2 cents a pound; lamb, 5 cents a pound. Swine, cent a pound; fresh pork 3-4 cent a pound; bacon hams, etc., 2 cents a pound; lard, 1 cent a pound; lard substitutes, 5 cents a pound. Milk, fresh, 2V& cents a gallon; sour, or buttermilk, 1 cent a gal lon; cream, 22 cents a gallon. ondensed and other prepared milks -and creams are protected. 1 to 6 cents a pound. J putter v and butter substitutes, o cents a ; pound. Cheese, valued at less than 30 cents a pound, and substitutes, 5 cents a pound. Above 30 cents a pound, 25 per cent ad valorem. Poultry, live, 3 cents a pound; dressed or undressed, 6 cents a pound; preserved; 35 per cent ad valorem. Eggs in shell, S cents a dozen; frozen yolks or albumen. 6 cents a pound, dried. 18 cents a pound. Honey, 3 cents a pound. Barley, 20 cents a bushel; malt. 40 cents per 100 pounds; pearl and barley flour, 2 cents a pound. Buckwheat, 10 cents per 100 pounds; flour, etc., cent a pound. " Corn, 15 cents a bushel, meal, etc., 30 cents per 100 pounds. Oats, 15 cents a bushel; unhul- led ground, 4 5 cents per 100 pounds; rolled, etc., 90 cents per 100 pounds. Rye, 15 cents a bushel; fleur, 45 cents per 100 pounds. Wheat. 30 cents a bushel, flour. etc.. 78 cents per 100 pounds. Apples, 30 cets a bushel, dried, 2 cents a pound. . Berries, 1 1-4 cents a pound; dried, 2 cents a pound. Cherries, natural or In brine, 2 cents a pound; marachino, 40 per cent ad valorem. Cider. 5 cents a gallon; vine gar. 6 cents per, proof gallon. Grapes, 25 cents per cubic foot. Currants, 2 cents a pound. Peaches or pears. cent a pound; dried, 2 cents a pound. . Plums, prunes, etc., green, ripe or dried, cent a pound. Filberts, 2 Vi cents a pound. shelled, 5 cents a pound. Walnuts, 4 cents a pound, shelled, 12 cents a pound. Flaxseed, 40 cents a bushel. Clover and other grass seeds, 1-4 cent a pound. Onions, 1 cent a pound. Potatoes, 58 cents per 100 pounds. Tomatoes, 1 cent a pound. Hay, S3 a ton; straw, $1.50 a ton. Hops, 24 cents a pound. Flax, straw $2 a ton; not hackled. 1 rent a pound; hackled. 2 cents a pound; yarns. 8 cents a pound and up. . - Wools, 7 to 26 cents a pound. not exceeding 35 per cent ad vat orem. ' , .'- - Fruit juices, 70 cents a gallon. ' Horses and mules, valued at not more than $150 each, $30; Valued at more than $150, 20 per cent ad valorem. ,-. Menthol, 25 per cent ad val orem. Skins, free. (This will raise the question of administration that existed under the McKInley tariff law, ot what is a hide and what is a sin or when does a calf 'with its skin become a cow with her bide.) Cherries and Prunes Low The members, of the Oregon delegation should, in one house or the other, or in conference of the two houses, get busy on the cherry and prune schedules, to say the least. Two cents a potrad for cherries in brine is too low; U does not give adequate protection to the cherry growers of this section against the small sized and cheap cherries grown with low priced labor In France, Italy and Spain. Two cents a pound for ripe or green cherries is not bad, though it is plenty low enougn. Eut the same duty on cherries in brine will afford very little protection to American growers of cherries. And it will not-benefit. American consumers, either. It will benefit only the manufacturers of mara schino cherries, who can afford to pay the 2 cents a pound duty, and shipping charges, and still use the cherries of the countries named for they run small, and the manu facturers can sell their product made from the small cherries to the trade by representing that they will go farther to the noond or gallon than the maraschino product made ; from the larger American cherries. Thus their can keep the prices of American cher ries down with this unfair com petition. r Theinjaraschlno manufacturers have WfldentlV put one over on our representatives. The half a cent a pound dntT on dried prunes is a Joke, as far as protection to our growers is con cerned. Specific Duties Good Feature The specific duties provided In the agricultural schedules in the present bill is a good feature. In that respect, the proposed bill is the best ever written. There is another feature of the bill that promises a real advance. It is the one putting In the hands of the president the power to raise or lower duties' when found inade quate for protection or too high to be workable or to give justice. That feature is in the new British tariff law. and in the new French tariff law; In both those countries the power of raising or lowering rates being lodged in commis sions. This feature In the American tariff bill, if allowed to stand, may conceivably lead to tha - suits which every student of tariff matters In this country has hoped might some day be attained; that is. tariff duties and ' promulga tions and regulations that win place the whole matter on a hnt. ness basis, and take it out of the realm of log-rolling politics. A Joker "Left in Law The writer has contended for many years that the writing of tariff laws ought hot to be done by congressional committees, but by the men who administer the laws; by the men In the apprais ing offices of the United States. who are experts. Take the present bill., It places a duty of 2 to 4 cents'a pound on aides; hut it leaves skins free. So the matter of sarin k when a calf becomes a cow, or when a calf skin becomes a cow hide, must be left to the promulgation of the treasury department, - as has al- majm ueen me case. And ; the temptation Is to- make the pro mulgation such aa to allow all Wly taftw Witt ImmI TtwM win the hides of Central and South American and Mexico, and of the runted cattle of other countries, come In free as skins. This was done by Lyman J. Gage, then sec retary of the United States treas ury in administering the McKIn ley. tariff law. It unjustly enriched the tanners and shoesmakera of New England to the, extent or about $7,000,000 a year, at the expense of the United . States treasury and without con ferring any benefit whatever, on the wearers of boots and shoes and the other users of leather in this country. But that is a long, long story. . There Is no doubt that the pres ent bill contains many, jokers. Every bill that' is framed as tariff bills are now r framed in this country must of necessity con tain jokers; Intentional and other wise. . ' T END OF THE It Is Important and It Has Been Largely Neglect ed on This Coast (Los Angeles Times) A. B. Lawrence, of , Lankershim writes instructively and encour agingly as follows: ; ' "i have been reading the arti cles In The Times Farm, and Tractor . Section reliaiouslr . and have been particularly Interested in those referring to the meat breeds. There is no doubt but that the meat, end of, the poultry industry has been pushed aside, giving the egg producers prefer ence.. Why? Is It because the poultry raisers are too lazy to start something " new? ' J have an idea man can start something In Caffornia i hat will be different. ana ny educating th public to appreciate the deliciana rannn can supply a demand that has in the past been unknown. I am now specializing In Reds, but re cently, sent east, for 100 eggs (Black Giants.) ? Since . rettine these eggs I have located a flock in Comptoh and have written tor a price on 1080 ears so that I can set a large number at ' once and have a flock of fair size next spring. People handlinc thtfie heavier breeds charge rather high prices for their hatching eggs, which may be a reason why so few flocks of the heavy strains are being raised. : I paid $55 for the hundred eggs t received from the east. I wantno raise a lot of Giant capons and will do so if I can get the eggs. There are few places where yon can buy real good chicken for the table, and the demand I now have frbni individuals of waalth who drive here for fryers . and broilers is is quite large and has convinced me that: there fls a real market If it can be developed. The coun try here Is so fed up on. Leghorns that they cannot understand why Red baby chicks cost more." That certainly Is encouraging, and let us hope but the forerun ner of a wider and more diversi fied development of the - poultry industry In southern California, The , Leghorn Is not quite the whole thing really, there; are others. As a fowl that grows good capons the Black Giants en joy a good reputation, being the source of the principal suddIt for the Philadelphia market.. As to nutritive value of white and brown eggs. - there is Dractlcall no difference, other things being equal.' The whites can be more economically candled, while the browns (In our judgment) pos sess a slightly' stronger shell. Possibly the reason Leghorn hatching " eggs . command 'less money than those of. the 'meat breeds, is because there are more of them, hence the compe tition is keener. Now, a word as t markets and prices. A "Capons' are hot a general article of commerce in the same sense that : ham and bacon are, hence they may require .something In the way ot exploitation and MA PO W IB Okmymtl wn Your Health Begins VLen Too - .'. - Phone 87 : "I for an appointment DR, O.L.SCOTT : P. S. C Chiropractor aty lakMUwy 414 to 41 1 V. B. JTrt'l Xk. BUf. Hours 10 to 12 a. m. and 2 to 6 p. ra. OF Foniera A . Great English Poultry f Authority Gives Good : ' I t 'a Kill AuYice i lo novices c . V " ""I - r V CAUTION 'In 'all maftters pertaining to toe pottry industry, it la wise to be conservative and not overstate tho possibilities ot the Industry, par ticularly to beginners. On the' occasion of Judge C A. Housee'S departure from England to Aus-. tralia, where he is to Judge thV National Australian poultry show at Sydney, he was asked by ihe London Foul try: World to give an . outline of the, essential factors fur teginners to consider and follow in an effort to "break In success, fully Into he poultry Industry. Here they are: If you have "chick, en on the brain," give them cart ful consideration: Don't spend money on a lot ot stock. . Take up one breed and make yourself master of it Don't' dabble In two or. three ere yot -know one. ; j - Secure yonr Initial stocl: from a reliable and. proved breeder. s Start slowly; don't overloa yourself. Fut your money intl cne first class pea rather that three or four second rater?. Cool birds cost no more to keep thaa poor ones. ' , . Good stock is Essential, so are good honses and appliance. That way comes success.. Man - fall , because they put g?od stock Into . poor houses. Result: ' disease, disappointment and failure. Use the best feed; be : regular in the feeding and general atten tion to your stock. Much depends on this. , . ;.-;r" v e, ; Join your local ' society. See , to learn from the older members. Don't fly too h'ah at th start. ' Test your . stoca in your; local enow. Having conquered there, proceed toTh'gher things. To sum up. the whole matter: Be strenuous ard - persevering. ; Concentrate,'? Rucce-s comes al " wfryi ,to the earner., thoroua n r euthusia8t. . ' , development. There la a demand. nowever, and once the ' Industry: is established and a Derinanent source of supply Is assured, we oeueve it can be developed Into a splendid business. The same applies to broilers, fryers and roasters. Aa our correspondent well says, the entire 'trend 'of the poultry industry for the past two decades has been developed ' only in one direction; the pen dulum is destined to swine hack sooner or later, and the quicker we realize that the meat breeds have a place equal In rank to the producers of hen .fruit the better for the industry. And the beauty of it is, the table fowls also lay eggs, some eaualllne In eanacltv the so-called egg breeds In oth er words the 8. C. White Leg. horn. Here's hoping our corres pondent will not only blaze the way, but that success will crown his efforts and profits satisfy his ambitions. ' 7 V The Times article printed above applies to Oregon and the other coast states.1 Straws shojrwhich way the wind blowsf At a-recent convention ; composed id hotel stewards a vote was taken as to the most popular meat disa, the result being in favor t of well grown and properly conditioned chicken meaU Jt would be a fine thing if some man or men with vision and industry and capital would establish a. great poultry plant In the . Salem district, de voted to the high class meat in dustry,' with the s production ot eggs an Incidental side line. Tpple I'll never forget the day I proposed to my wife. I most have appeared very absurd. C : Alden Did she laugh at yon? Apple No, I sometimes .. wish she had. Maybe I'd have forgotten my embarrassment, and e hanged the subject.' i